Summer

[gotsnowgotslush]

Summer

Time, a luxury spent on reading. I read science fiction, from an early age. I heard all the horror tales/urban myths from the older kids. I saw all the science fiction and horror films. (They did not have a guide for what was appropriate for children. Just that no sex or nudity was involved.) Never lead me to kill anyone. *reads Slenderman wiki*

WTF has been going on, for the last five years ?

 

[neci]

summer is booked full. trying to find a week that works with a friend for a river get away led to both of us going Ahhhh! there's a historical novel series to be finished and a new bathing suit for the water. the tv will be turned off around the house for most of the time. readers need to be reading and playing.

 

[StrayKat]

Being a ginger in my youth it was awesome how I managed to tan without burning even when I spent days and days sunbathing. Until I developed a rare kind of sun allergy in my 20ies and had to keep in shade ever since. With the amount of skin cancer going on in my family its probably for the best too.
But that did reduce my enjoyment in summer significantly.

I am just an ordinary heat hater wishing for a winter now.

 

[Aquagal]

Duh. Sorry, I totally misread the intent of your thread.

 

[Cathleen]

Summer

Time, a luxury spent on reading. I read science fiction, from an early age. I heard all the horror tales/urban myths from the older kids. I saw all the science fiction and horror films. (They did not have a guide for what was appropriate for children. Just that no sex or nudity was involved.) Never lead me to kill anyone. *reads Slenderman wiki*

WTF has been going on, for the last five years ?

I cannot wrap my head around how twelve-year-old can do such a thing. What goes on in the mind to want to stab another. The age is so disturbing.

 

[neci]

slenderman. okay. sorry as well. i just read about this murder.

 

[Cathleen]

slenderman. okay. sorry as well. i just read about this murder.

The child is expected to fully recover. Amazingly.

 

[neci]

The child is expected to fully recover. Amazingly.

goodness. that is amazing.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

This was not the first murder of its kind, to awaken disbelief. The first thing I thought of was the two young boys in the UK, who dragged a three year old boy away.

The second thought was of ten year old Jeffrey Curley, of Cambridge MA, kidnapped and killed by two twenty somethings.

Summer was always stained with something dreadful. Something local, something known all over the nation, something across the border, something from overseas.

The summer of Charles Manson's trial. The Summer of Sam. The summer that had countless bodies of young women found near a factory in Mexico.

The summer that so many bodies of young women were found, that Green River could no longer be ignored.

The summer that a murderer took away the life of a friend's lover.
The summer that a mass murderer killed a young friend of mine.
The bodies were dumped on the side of a highway that I had to travel.

Summer would continue on, with flowers and green grass, with beaches and boats. Mountains and lakes, trails and camping sites.

 

[snugglestruggle]

The World has become a crazier, scarier place over the years. Perhaps it was always so and it's just on display more?That doesn't alarm me as much as the disregard for life shown by some of todays youth.

The worst thing about summer used to be flying Insects, the Heat or a Sunburn.